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It makes neither political nor economic sense, but evidence mounts by the day that the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives is determined to wreck the nation's economy.
It is beyond mindless; it's reckless.
New Mexico's freshman Congresswoman Michelle Lujan-Grisham drove the point home last week when the Dist. 1 Democrat warned that Congress must act to avert the disaster of sequestration before March 1 when massive across-the-board federal budget cuts are scheduled to kick in under a measure passed in 2011.
If Congress doesn't get down to business and do its job — either by producing a budget or by rescinding that sequestration mandate requiring $1 trillion in automatic budget cuts — tens of thousands of New Mexicans will see their jobs vanish, Grisham said while visiting an Albuquerque high-tech company.
According to a recent George Mason University study, Grisham noted, no sector of New Mexico's economy, be it public or private, will be spared crushing economic blows if Congress — starting with the Republican House majority — allows sequestration to proceed on schedule.
As concerns the national economic impact of the looming budget cuts, the author of that survey, public policy Professor Stephen Fuller, is quite blunt: "The results are bleak but clear …
"The unemployment rate will climb above 9 percent, pushing the economy into recession and reducing projected growth by two-thirds."
In New Mexico at least 28,000 jobs are at risk, and perhaps even more. Fully 5,000 New Mexico defense-related jobs will be lost. And small business losses are expected to add up to 12,000 jobs, give or take.
And it doesn't end there. In a separate study conducted by the National Education Association, the impact on New Mexico's public schools promises to be enormous.
The loss of education jobs alone will be in excess of 330 positions, the NEA study forecasts, and the number of students affected by those job losses will be at least 36,800.
Simply put, public education in New Mexico hangs in the balance.
There's been a good deal of political chatter of late in this enchanted land about the large number of New Mexico workers and jobs that are being relocated to other states, and it's a troubling trend.
But the New Mexico jobs that are threatened by sequestration aren't going anywhere. They're just going.
Nor should New Mexico workers think about going elsewhere to find the jobs to replace the ones they lost here because every last state in this union will be experiencing huge job losses of their own.
Last week in his State of the Union address the president said, "A growing economy that creates good middle-class job s— that must be the North Star that guides our efforts."
In these contentious and polarized times, there are probably those among us who would argue with that proposition, although you have to wonder why.
Nonetheless unless Congress acts with dispatch to undo the damage it wrought with that absurd sequestration law it enacted in 2011, we will not be looking at a "growing economy that creates good middle-class jobs."
We'll be looking at an economy writhing in contraction precisely because of that congressional enactment.
It's quite mad, yet even Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, seems to think we are dealing with inevitability here.
Said McConnell on the eve of President Obama's State of the Union speech, "It's pretty clear to me that the sequester's going to go into effect. I have seen no evidence that the House plans to act on this matter before the end of the month."
All this while Rome burns.
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Heat the mixture in a saucepan over very low heat, stirring, till the berries soften and fall apart. The mixture will be thick and jam-like, even though it doesn't really warm up much; this will take under 5 minutes. If you use cornstarch, cook and stir till the mixture bubbles and thickens. You can prepare the filling up to several days before; cover and refrigerate till you're ready to use it.
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July 27, 2012
The following Q&A is part of a series created by the college dean's office to introduce new faculty. Get to know Assistant Professor in Foreign Languages & Literature Philippe Brand, who joins the faculty this fall, in the interview below.
Education: Ph.D. 2011, M.A. 2006, B.A. 1998, University of Colorado Boulder.
Research & Teaching Interests: 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature, film, and culture.
What most excites you about joining the LC community?
My answer to this question will be a little bit different as I've been at LC since Fall 2011, when I arrived as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Rephrasing the question as, "What excites you about staying at LC?" I would answer "Many things!"
Over the past year, I've really enjoyed getting to know my students. I've found them to be smart, intellectually curious, and committed to engaging with the world around them. I also like the fact that here at LC, both research and teaching excellence are highly valued and they are not considered to be separate things. Finally, one of the biggest things that has impressed me is the friendly atmosphere among faculty members from different departments. My previous institution was a lot larger and there wasn't much interaction between faculty members in different disciplines—that's certainly not the case here. Over the last year, I've been touched and inspired by the warm welcome from everyone here at LC—the students, the administration, and my fellow faculty. A lot of places pay lip service to the idea of community, but I think LC really makes a concerted effort to cultivate it, to all of our benefit.
Describe the current trajectory of your scholarly research.
Up until now, my research has been focused in large part on the question of how novelists across the French-speaking world are reacting to our contemporary state of affairs—a moment in time when literature is facing a lot of competition from the internet, from television, from film, from all the screens small and large that are taking up ever more space in our cultural landscape. It's a question that I'll continue to explore, and the answers are always changing, which is one of the pleasures (and one of the challenges!) of working on the extreme contemporary period.
Over the summer, I just had the pleasure of participating in an NEH Summer Seminar based in Paris that looked at 20th century French history. It was incredibly stimulating and educational, and I think the seminar and the connections I made will inform my research and my teaching in a variety of ways in the years to come. While I was in Paris, I also had the chance to strengthen some ties with some writers and scholars with whom I've worked in the past, and I'm looking forward to continuing to collaborate with my peers in France, Canada, and across the Francophone world.
Finally, thinking about the future, I plan to devote more time to deepening my knowledge of contemporary film and visual culture: two areas that have always fascinated me!
What kind of hobbies or special activities do you enjoy outside of work?
I love food and wine, so needless to say Portland is a pretty great place for me. I enjoy riding my bike around town, but if I'm being honest I have to admit that I haven't (yet) worked up the courage to tackle the hill that leads up to campus. Someday…
What were your childhood goals/aspirations?
To read all the books in the library. It was a bigger task than I realized at the time, I'm still working on it.
What are you listening to in your car right now?
OPB for the news. For music, anything from Antibalas to The xx.
What was your favorite childhood story?
Hmm… I was a voracious reader as a kid (perhaps not surprisingly for someone who ended up making a career out of reading), so it's hard to pick just one. Maybe I'll go with the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series. The professor in me appreciates the fact that the series forces you to take an active role as a reader, and the literary formalist in me likes the "garden of forking paths" aspect that made me feel like narrative potential was almost infinite. Anything could happen!


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I read with interest the article (Delta Farm Press, Dec. 12, 2008) about glyphosate-resistant weeds. From the first year that Roundup Ready soybeans were released, we all knew it would happen, it was just a matter of when it happened.
During the late 1940s, and on into the early 1970s, there was a hatchery near where I live that specialized in raising "weeder geese." They hatched goslings, shipped them south to be turned loose in cotton fields for the season, then bought them back in late summer and fattened them for slaughter.
I realize it would take a lot of geese to service all of the cotton acres, but perhaps some could be utilized in areas where the resistant weeds are the worst. It might beat the "chopping crews" that weed scientist Larry Steckel mentioned as an alternative to chemical.


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Acronym and abbreviation subterfuge creates an endless maze
The week after mid-term elections is a good time to address a subject that is long overdue for a major overhaul. Acronym subterfuge on the part of government and other institutions must be curtailed.
Whenever a questionable organization, committee, panel, institution, or company wants to operate with impunity, it is given an acronym, initials or label that is a subtle abbreviation that nobody understands.
Some of them are really annoying. For instance: if you went online and wanted to see the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, it would be perfectly logical to enter "SI swimsuit issue" into Google or some other search engine.
There is not a heterosexual male on the planet who does not know that the famous "SI" stands for Sports Illustrated, the male bible of all things good and fun – not so!
If you do that, do not be surprised if you are sent to the Smithsonian Institution home page. Not exactly what you had in mind? Too bad. SI is the official acronym for the institution of old stuff, educational stuff and notable memorabilia. You will not find scantily clad swimsuit models there.
As if that weren't disappointing enough, try checking into the Saturday Night Live website to view old episodes and peruse the current TV schedule. If you enter SNL, you could be sent to the offi cial government website of the Sandia National Laboratories. You don't want to know what they do there.
Their slogan is: "Securing a Peaceful and Free World through Technology."
Their security missions include: nuclear weapons, defense systems and assessments, Homeland Security and energy and infrastructure assurance. The company belongs to Lockheed Martin. It is a scary place. Do not look for laughs at SNL; it is not Saturday Night Live.
There is more, much more. If you want to get a little extra assurance for your aging car when it breaks down, the logical choice would be to join AAA, wouldn't you think? Well – not so fast.
The next time you're stuck in the middle of the desert with a flat tire and no spare, be careful when you attempt to look up AAA on your smart phone. Do not be surprised if you are directed to "Archives of American Art." Those are the initials officially assigned to that division of – now take a deep breath . . . The Smithsonian Institution. Kinda makes ya wanna go hmmm.
Is this a government joke? Unfortunately – no.
The government labels strange combinations of initials and acronyms to organizations that you didn't know existed, even if you wanted to access information on certain subject matter.
An example of this would be: AcqNet. The upper and lower case initials stand for Acquisition Central. It is a federal government website that has a menu designed to not be understood. I visited the site and sure enough – I do not understand what they do there. I am convinced that highly paid government authorities planned it that way.
Why would they want any citizen in the private sector to know what and how their government acquires anything? Consequently, the information is obfuscated in esoteric terminology, and given an abbreviated name that most cryptographers could not decipher.
Leave it to the federal government, and probably all federal governments, not just ours, to make searching for accountability as difficult as possible.
Let's just say we wanted to learn how much the government spends on research. They give out huge federal grants to various organizations and institutions in the name of research that most of us know nothing about.
You can find out a little bit if you know enough to go to FEDRIP. That is the Federal Research in Progress Database. Now who couldn't figure that out? The answer is obvious – most of us. And that's the way they like it.
Here's one that is of interest to all, but I bet you didn't know it existed. The PCIE. It stands for the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency. When you go to the website, you will be redirected to another website called CIGIE.
The organization was renamed the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. I cannot think of any government that would want its constituents questioning that organization. No wonder they keep it under wraps.
Look it up. Enter CIGIE in an Internet search engine if you want a much clearer understanding of why we live in a system you can't understand.


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Eight inducted into College of Nursing Hall of Fame, 2012 distinguished alumna recognized
By Crystal Baity
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Those honored March 16 were, at back left to right, Sue Lassiter, Helen Brinson, Sue Gerard, Martha Dartt, Anna Weaver, and Linda Burhans. Front row, left to right, Carmen Vincent, Nettie Evans, Joanne Stevens. Photo by Laurie Evans, College of Nursing.
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Mar. 20, 2012) — Significant contributors to nursing education, administration, research and practice were honored Friday as eight nurses were inducted to the Hall of Fame in the East Carolina University College of Nursing.
Inductees were Linda Burhans, Martha Dartt, Nettie Evans, Susan Gerard, Sue Lassiter, Joanne Stevens, Carmen Vincent and Anna Weaver. All are ECU alumni.
Also honored was Helen M. Brinson, who received the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award. Brinson recently retired after a long career as director of nursing education with the Eastern Area Health Education Center. The award recognizes exemplary contributions to the nursing profession.
More than $51,000 raised through the creation of the Hall of Fame supports a fund providing merit-based scholarships for nursing students. The launching of the Hall of Fame program in 2011 coincided with the 50
anniversary of nursing education at ECU. Last year, 40 were inducted into the inaugural class.
"The Hall of Fame recognizes nurses who carry forth the ECU College of Nursing tradition of excellence in clinical practice, teaching, research, and leadership," said Dr. Sylvia Brown, dean of the College of Nursing.
Each inductee received a flame-shaped award resembling the nursing pin designed by the first nursing class at ECU.
Burhans of Wilson is associate executive director for education and practice for the North Carolina Board of Nursing. She serves on several state and national nursing associations and is a board certified advanced nurse executive and professional in health care quality.
Dartt of Greenville is director of nursing services at ECU's Brody School of Medicine, where she has worked and served in several leadership roles since 1988. She is an adjunct faculty member in the College of Nursing and serves on many administrative committees in the Brody School of Medicine.
Evans of Ayden is vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive for Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie. She is an adjunct faculty member in the ECU College of Nursing and is an executive board member of Eastern AHEC. She is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives.
Gerard of Blounts Creek is senior director for growth and clinical services for Vidant Beaufort Hospital. She previously served as medical practice administrator, interim chief executive officer and chief executive officer for Beaufort Regional Health System, and worked in several roles for Beaufort County Hospital. She received the Beaufort County Chamber of Commerce 2011-2012 Community Leader of the Year Award.
Lassiter of Ahoskie has served as president of Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie since 1997. Previously she served in multiple capacities at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, now Vidant Medical Center. She is an adjunct faculty member in the College of Nursing, and is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives.
Stevens of Raleigh is a contract professional lobbyist. She previously was director of government relations for the North Carolina Nurses Association. She is state advocate for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She has been a nursing instructor, and worked in risk management and quality improvement in several medical centers in the southeast.
Vincent of Greenville is vice president of corporate accreditation and regulatory compliance at Vidant Health and is an intermittent reserve surveyor for The Joint Commission. She is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives and the National Association of Health Services Executives.
Weaver of Greenville is assistant vice president of transplant, trauma and surgical services at Vidant Medical Center, where she has served in numerous administrative roles in surgical and operative services. She has served several leadership positions with the Association of Operating Room Nurses, and is a longtime community volunteer.
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After rupturing his Achilles tendon to end the NLDS last year against the St. Louis Cardinals, Ryan Howard began his slow climb back to the Phillies' lineup. He didn't return until July 6, by most accounts earlier than expected given the way he gingerly ran around the bases. Still, Howard was a welcome sight back at first base as the Phillies had utilized a less-than-exciting cast of characters in his stead, including Ty Wigginton (190 PA, .742 OPS), John Mayberry (75 PA, .625 OPS), Hector Luna (41 PA, .652 OPS), Laynce Nix (34 PA, .942 OPS), and Jim Thome (13 PA, .585 OPS).
Even as Ryan Howard set career lows in OPS in both 2010 (.859) and 2011 (.835), he was still an above-average hitter overall and slightly above-average for his position. No longer was he the 40-50 home home run, 135-150 RBI threat of yesteryear, but he was still a force to be reckoned with and still a player opposing teams needed to prepare for in pregame preparation. Since returning from the disabled list, however, he has been a shadow of his former self, even the 2010-11 version. In his 121 plate appearances, he is setting career-highs and lows and all the wrong categories:
- Walk rate: 9.1% (career average: 12.2%)
- Strikeout rate: 36.4% (career average: 27.6%)
- Isolated power: .222 (career average: .283)
- BABIP: .281 (career average: .323)
These are the basic stats for hitters that let you know how he is performing. This should be very alarming, especially in the first year of Howard's five-year, $125 million contract. The walk rate tells you he isn't being very patient, the strikeout rate tells you he is not making nearly enough contact, the isolated power tells you he isn't making solid contact, and his BABIP backs up that point as well. Hitters tend to have a lot of control over their BABIP, as opposed to pitchers who typically don't.
One big change in Howard's game is that he is back to being an opposite-field hitter, but he has been such almost exclusively since returning. All seven of his home runs have been to right-center or further away from right field. In fact, only one has actually gone to the right of center field; Howard has not pulled any in his 121 PA.
The heat maps tell the story here. You can see a lot of blue (no power) where there once was plenty of red (lots of power).
And it holds true for both right- and left-handed pitchers.
What is concerning is that, although Howard has at least shown some power, he is hitting a lot of balls on the ground. FanGraphs puts his ground ball rate at 48 percent, well above his career average of 39 percent. As a result, he is sitting on career-lows in line drive rate and fly ball rate (excluding 2004-05) as well. Ground balls are great if you are a Juan Pierre-type who doesn't hit for any power, has speed, and doesn't force an infield shift. Howard, of course, wants to hit as few grounders as possible because he does induce that shift on the right side and he hits into it often as his hit chart indicates.
The average lefty has a .175 isolated power (slugging percentage minus batting average) on inside pitches. Howard's ISO is .000. From 2009-11, it was .254. In previous years, we worried that Howard was becoming too pull-happy and now he is not at all. There is a balance to be struck, but Howard has bounced from one extreme to the other.
The lack of contact is also a big red flag. Howard has always been a high-strikeout hitter, but 36 percent is astronomical even for him and even in the small sample size. To put this in perspective, Howard has taken the third-fewest swings (236) of the 21 National League first basemen who have logged at least 100 PA. Yet, he has the tenth-most swings and misses (82). In terms of percentages, Howard has swung at the second-fewest pitches in the strike zone (41 percent) and the third-most outside the strike zone (35 percent).
Whether Howard has made mechanical or approach changes to compensate for his Achilles injury or made a concerted effort to be less like he was last year and more like he was in 2006, it simply hasn't worked thus far in 2012. Fortunately for him and for the Phillies, he has a free month and a half before the end of the season, as well as the off-season and spring training to iron out all of the kinks and return in 2013 as the first basemen the Phillies thought they were keeping around when they agreed to the five-year deal two seasons ago.


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The Edmonton Oilers are starting to wonder if the referees are basing their decisions on the standings, not the game.
Monday night in Los Angeles, in what has become a recurring and rather disturbing scene, the Oilers seemed to be playing in a contest with two sets of rules — one for a playoff team and one for a lottery team.
And the lottery team got the short end of the stick, getting no respect from Tim Peel and Mike Leggo in a 2-0 loss.
"Maybe they (the NHL), needs Hollywood in the playoffs," said head coach Tom Renney. "I'm not sure."
It's not just the Kings who've been getting the calls against Edmonton. It's everyone else.
For the 11th time in the last 20 games, the Oilers were given one or fewer power plays. By comparison, only twice in the last 20 games have their opponents been limited to one or fewer power plays.
Only once in the last 20 games have the Oilers been given more power play chances than their opponents.
Is it because they were playing terribly? Hard to say that when they were 8-9-3 in that span.
Monday night there were too many calls and non-calls to mention. There was Shawn Horcoff getting his stick slashed in half in front of the LA net, which is supposed to be an automatic penalty — no call. Devan Dubnyk tripped behind the net, another automatic, no call. Colten Teubert's diving poke-check that was all puck, flagged for tripping by a referee 50 feet away.
"It's tough sledding out there," said Renney. "We had to kill a couple too many penalties."
While they're having trouble drawing penalties themselves. Or, at least, getting them called.
"I would go with the latter," said Renney.
"It's tough to say what's happening," said Sam Gagner. "At first you want to say can we do more to draw penalties by causing teams to haul us down or driving pucks to the net… but it's tough to do at this level."
The other trend this season is Devan Dubnyk.
The Edmonton keeper has been their best player down the stretch, winning 10 of his last 15 games on the 28th-place team in the NHL, and he was at it again Monday.
He was a one-man army at the Staples Centre, but could only fend off the Kings for so long — 28 shots, to be exact, before LA scored the only goal they'd need in a 2-0 victory.
"He's been outstanding for us all year," said Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. "And again tonight."
The Oilers, with four of their defencemen out with injuries, were peppered with 27 shots in the first 40 minutes alone, but Dubnyk still kept it scoreless going into the third period.
The Kings finally broke through in the first shot of the third period, a one-timer from Slava Voynov just 34 seconds in.
"I think you're seeing a goaltender grow," said head coach Tom Renney. "Much like our team it requires opportunity and challenge and at the end of the day you have to answer the bell.
"I think you're seeing a young fella really trying to grab this opportunity and run with it. The arrow continues to point up for him."
HAIRY POTTER: Defenceman Corey Potter, after being crushed by Bobby Ryan in Anaheim, sat out Monday's tilt with concussion symptoms. He felt OK during the game, but the symptoms set in when things cooled down.
"T.D. (Forss) checked with him a number of times on the bench and he was adamant that he was good to go and capable of playing," said Renney. "When things settle down, often times that's what happens, speaking from experience. That's when you go, 'Wait a second.'"
LATE HITS: Taylor Hall is in Cleveland where he'll undergo shoulder surgery Tuesday … Ales Hemsky, who left the Anaheim game in the second period, took the pre-game skate and pronounced himself fit to play. He did leave the game briefly in the first period, but returned.
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How a class I once dreaded turned out to be an inspiration
September 25th, 2012 | Laura Vallelonga
Last semester, I enrolled in English 212, a composition & rhetoric course specifically designed for English and Bible majors. Here at Evangel there have been certain classes I couldn't sign up for fast enough. Unfortunately there have also been classes I've wished I could pay someone else to take for me. The latter was how I originally felt about taking ENGL 212.
As I read the syllabus, I felt completely intimidated. Very simply, I didn't believe I could do it. I didn't want to do it either. This class was going to be awful; I could feel it.
Now nearly six months later, I realize that I could not have been more wrong. ENGL 212 did not destroy my GPA or ruin my confidence; it inspired me. Or rather my professor, Dr. Nathan Nelson inspired me. His excitement over English, writing and the effect one's words can have on an audience is contagious. Every class, I noticed not only his excitement for English, but also his genuine interest in helping students learn, understand and succeed.
His enthusiasm for learning and helping others to learn is not specific to him or this class alone. Time and time again, I have been surprised and pleased to find out how much the Evangel professors truly want to help students succeed. I love being on a Christian campus that has professors who view their occupation as more than a "job" and their students as more than "clients." They consider what they do as part of their God-given calling and their students as important individuals whom God has also called to do something unique in this world.
Dr. Nelson took something I had previously found boring and burdensome and turned it into something relevant, interesting and — dare I say it — fun. No, I am still not the quickest, most amazing writer of all time, but I did grow during my semester in English 212. I gained knowledge of literary techniques and improved my composition skills; but more than all that, I gained enthusiasm for writing.
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Donald "Don" Wayne Henman, 74, of Blackfoot passed away Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, at the Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg following a lingering illness.
He was born Feb. 6, 1936, in Mason City, Neb., the son of Elzie W. Henman and Anna Vera Mortensen.
Don graduated from Clark County High School in Dubois in 1955.
On Sept. 2, 1956, he married Doris Putnam and to this union three children — Deborah, Dan, and Dale — were born. They later divorced.
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Don enjoyed spending time with his family and participating in many of his favorite activities with them. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, woodworking, camping and always had a big garden which he enjoyed working in and sharing with others. In his younger years, he enjoyed riding horses.
He is survived by his wife, Sherrie of Blackfoot; children, Deborah (Larry) Russell of Basalt, Dan (Natalie) Henman of Las Vegas, Nev.;, Dale (Judy) Henman of Cleveland, Tenn.; brothers, Robert (Emma) of Idaho Falls, John (Bonnie) of Boise, Richard "Butch" (LaDonna) of Labelle and Lester (LaPreal) of Dubois; sisters, JoAnn Abbott of Dubois, Deloris Thompson of Idaho Falls, Alice Olsen of Price, Utah; Joyce (Everett) Mortensen of Dubois, Linda (John) Toler of Dubois, Mary Lou Wellard of Idaho Falls; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Ruth and grandson Shawn Henman.
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DEV540: Secure DevOps and Cloud Application Security New
I have a security background & interface with engineers/developers every day in my role, I'm finding the course very useful.
(DEV540) Opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about Operations and Security unlike anything since Security Essentials.
This course covers how developers and security professionals can build and deliver secure software using DevOps and cloud services, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS). It explains how principles, practices, and tools in DevOps and AWS can be leveraged to improve the reliability, integrity, and security of applications.
The first two days of the course cover how Secure DevOps can be implemented using lessons from successful DevOps security programs. Students build a secure DevOps CI/CD toolchain and understand how code is automatically built, tested, and deployed using popular open source tools such as git, Puppet, Jenkins, and Docker. In a series of labs you learn to inject security into your CI/CD toolchain using various security tools, patterns, and techniques.
The final three days of the course cover how developers and security professionals can utilize AWS services to build secure software in the cloud. Students leverage the CI/CD toolchain to push application code directly to the cloud instead of to local servers on their class virtual machines. Students analyze and fix applications hosted in the cloud using AWS services and features such as API Gateway, IAM, signed URLs, Security Token Service, autoscaling, KMS, encryption, WAF, and Lambda for Serverless computing.
The course makes extensive use of open source materials and tooling for automated configuration management ("Infrastructure as Code"), Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, containerization, micro-segmentation, automated compliance ("Compliance as Code"), and Continuous Monitoring.
This course also makes extensive use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and associated developer tools such as CloudFormation, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and other cloud application services so students can experience how these services can be utilized in their applications.
This course will prepare you to:
Understand the core principles and patterns behind DevOps.
- Recognize how work is done in DevOps, and identify keys to success in DevOps
Map out and implement a Continuous Delivery/Deployment pipeline
- Create a Value Stream Map of the processes and workflows in making code or configuration changes - from check-in to deployment and operations.
- Utilize Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment workflows, patterns and tools.
- Identify the security risks and issues in DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
Map out where security controls and checks can be added in Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
- Conduct effective risk assessments and threat modeling in a rapidly changing environment.
- Design and write automated security tests and checks in CI/CD. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of different automated testing approaches in Continuous Delivery.
- Implement self-service security services for developers.
- Inventory your software dependencies and secure them.
- Threat model and secure your build and deployment environment.
Integrate security into production operations
- Automate security policies.
- Leverage container technologies (such as Docker) for security.
- Automate compliance and run-time defense.
- Create continuous feedback loops from production to engineering.
Create a plan for introducing - or improving - security in a DevOps environment.
- Use DevOps practices to secure DevOps tools and workflows.
Move your DevOps workflows to the cloud
- Use Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Use CloudFormation to create Infrastructure as Code
- Build CI / CD pipelines using CodePipeline
- Containerize applications with EC2 Container Registry and EC2 Container Service
Consume cloud services to secure cloud applications
- Authorize requests using IAM and Cognito
- Secure REST APIs with API Gateway
- Scale horizontally with load balancers and autoscaling groups
- Protect sensitive secrets with KMS
- Monitor for security events using CloudWatch
Please plan to arrive early on Day 1 (8:00AM local time) for lab preparation and set-up. During this time, you can ensure your laptop has virtualization enabled, copy the lab files, and start the Linux virtual machine. The Instructor will be available to assist students with laptop prep and set-up from 8:00AM - 9:00AM. Class lecture will start at 9AM (excludes vLive and Mentor).
Course Content Overlap Notice:
Please note that course material for DEV540 and DEV534 overlaps. Days 1 and 2 of DEV540 contains material that is covered in DEV534. We recommend DEV540 for those interested in DevOps and cloud application security with Amazon Web Services (AWS). DEV534 only covers Secure DevOps topics.
Course Syllabus
DEV540.1: Introduction to Secure DevOps
An introduction to DevOps practices, principles and tooling. How DevOps works, and how work is done in DevOps. The importance of culture, collaboration, and automation in DevOps.
Using case studies of DevOps "Unicorns" - the Internet tech leaders who have created the DNA for DevOps - you understand how and why they succeeded. This includes the keys to their DevOps security programs.
Then you learn Continuous Delivery - the automation engine in DevOps - and how to build up a Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment pipeline. This includes how security controls can be folded into or wired into the CD pipeline, and how to automate security checks and tests in CD.
- Understanding CI/CD pipelines
- Deployment Kata
- Automating static analysis in CI
- Automating dynamic analysis in CI/CD
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Introduction to DevOps
- Case studies on DevOps Unicorns
- DevOps Principles
- Working in DevOps
- From Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery
- Building a CD Pipeline
- Deployment Kata
- Secure Continuous Delivery: Challenges and Issues
- Introducing Security into CD
- Static Analysis in CD
- Pen Testing and Manual Assessments - how do they fit in DevOps?
- Vulnerability Management in CD
- Securing your Software Supply Chain
- Automated security testing and scanning in CI/CD
DEV540.2: Moving to Production
Building on the ideas and frameworks developed in Section 1, you learn how secure Infrastructure as Code, using modern automated configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef and Ansible, allows you to quickly and consistently deploy new infrastructure and manage configurations.
Because the automated CD pipeline is so critically important to DevOps, you also learn how to secure the pipeline, including RASP and other run-time defense technologies. This includes containerization and security issues when using containers like Docker.
Next you learn how to protect the secrets that utilized by the automated tools used for CI/CD.
Finally, you learn how to build compliance into Continuous Delivery, using the security controls and guardrails that have been built in the DevOps toolchain.
- Managing configuration with Puppet
- Auditing Docker's security
- Monitoring with dashboards, Granfana, and Graphite
- Protecting secrets with Vault
- Auditing with OpenSCAP
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Securing your CD Pipeline. Threat modeling and locking down your build and deployment environment.
- Runtime Checks and Monitoring - monkeys and smart checks.
- Run-time Defense: RASP, IAST and other run-time security solutions
- Security in Monitoring. Using production metrics and insight to drive improvements in your security program.
- Red Teaming, Bug Bounties and Blameless Postmortems
- Secure Infrastructure as Code. Building security policies into infrastructure code
- Security with Puppet lab
- Managing Secrets. The problem of secrets in automated environment. Patterns - and anti-patterns - for managing secrets.
- Container Security - introduction to containers, Docker, and Docker security risks and tools.
- Compliance as Code. How to satisfy compliance requirements using Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment.
- Going Forward: introducing security into DevOps - and DevOps into security. Quick Wins and long-term investments needed to succeed.
DEV540.3: Moving to the Cloud
Utilizing DevOps principles you learn how to move your CI/CD toolchain into the cloud. This section provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and introduces the foundational tools and practices needed to securely deploy your applications in the cloud.
- AWS configuration and setup
- AWS CLI automation
- Securing VPC with CloudFormation
- Infrastructure automation
- CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline
- Cloud container Orchestration with ECR and ECS
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Introduction to the cloud
- Overview of cloud definitions
- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Key cloud computing characteristics
- Cloud deployment models
- Cloud computing adoption
- Cloud provider comparison
Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS services
- Application architecture
Cloud infrastructure as code
- EC2 introduction
- Virtual Private Cloud networks
- CloudFormation
Cloud CI/CD
- CodeCommit
- CodeBuild
- CodePipeline
- Securing CI/CD
Cloud container orchestration
Orchestration comparison
- AWS ECS, Google Container Service, Azure Containers
- Automating deployment
DEV540.4: Cloud Application Security
Leverage cloud application security services to ensure that applications have appropriate authentication and access control functionality while maintaining availability even while patching critical security defects.
- Service to service authentication with STS and JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
- Protecting REST web services
- Securing content with signed cookies
- Seamless patching with blue/green deploys
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Authentication and Access Control
- AWS Security Token Service (STS)
- Amazon Cognito
API Gateway
- API security provider comparison
- Cognito User Pools
- Cognito Federated Identities
- Custom Identity Providers
- Securing REST APIs
Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
- Class Load Balancer
- Application Load Balancer
- Autoscaling
- Content Deliver Network (CDN) security comparison
- CloudFront features
- Signed Cookies and Signed URLs
Patch Management
- Blue/Green deploy
- Approaches for patching running applications
DEV540.5: Cloud Security Automation
Expand usage of cloud application security services to provide encryption, monitoring, and automation.
- Securely managing application secrets
- Application monitoring and instrumentation
- Automated alerting and blocking
- Using Serverless for security automation
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Data storage
- S3, RDS, DynamoDB
Secrets Management
- Approaches to secrets management
- Key Management Service (KMS)
- CloudHSM
- Third-party solutions
Security Monitoring
- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
Security Automation
- Integration with monitoring tools
Serverless Security
- Overview of Serverless computing
- Key use cases
- Lambda overview
- Serverless security considerations
- Leveraging Lambda for automation
Additional Information
Laptop Required
A properly configured system is required for each student participating in this course. Before coming to class, carefully read and follow these instructions exactly.
Please download and install VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, or VMware Workstation Player on your system prior to class beginning. If you own a licensed copy of VMware, make sure it is at least VMware Workstation 10, VMware Fusion 7.0, or VMware Workstation Player 7.0. If you do not own a licensed copy of VMware, you can download a free 30-day trial copy from VMware. VMware will send you a time-limited serial number if you register for the trial at their web site.
VMware Workstation Player is a free download that does not need a commercial license. Most students find VMware Workstation Player adequate for the course.
Mandatory Laptop Requirements
Mandatory Host Hardware Requirements
- CPU: 64-bit 2.5+ GHz multi-core processor or higher
- Memory: 16GB of RAM minimum
- Hard Disk: Solid State Drive (SSD) is REQUIRED with 50GB of free disk space minimum
- Working USB 2.0 or higher port
- The student must have the capability to have Local Administrator Access within their host operating system
- Verify the BIOS settings have virtualization enabled
Mandatory Host Operating System Requirements
You must bring a 64-bit laptop with one of the following operating systems. These operating systems have been verified to be compatible with course VMware image:
- Windows (7, 8, or 10)
- Mac OS X (Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra)
Mandatory Software Requirements
Please ensure the following software is installed on the host operating system prior to class:
- VMware Workstation 10+, VMware Workstation Player 7+, or VMware Fusion 7+
- Zip File Utility (WinZip, 7Zip, or the built-in operating system zip utility)
Mandatory Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account
This course teaches students about DevOps and application security in a cloud environment. The exercises are done online in the AWS cloud. To complete these exercises, students must register a NEW AWS free-tier account prior to the start of the class:
- Create a new AWS account for this course: https://aws.amazon.com/
- Ensure that the AWS account does NOT contain any personal or corporate resources
- Ensure you can login to the root account using your username and password
- Bring a laptop with 16GB of RAM, and a 64-bit operating system
- Install VMware (Workstation, Workstation Player, or Fusion)
- Verify the USB drive is active and capable of mounting an exFAT file system. The course VM will be copied onto your laptop from a USB key provided by SANS.
- Register a NEW AWS free-tier account prior to the start of the class: https://aws.amazon.com/
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Who Should Attend
- Anyone working in the DevOps environment or transitioning to a DevOps environment
- Anyone who wants to understand where to add security checks, testing, and other controls to DevOps and Continuous Delivery
- Anyone interested in learning how to migrate DevOps workflows to the cloud, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Anyone interested in learning how to leverage cloud application security services provided by AWS
This includes the following:
- Developers
- Software Architects
- Operations engineers
- System administrators
- Security analysts
- Security engineers
- Auditors
- Risk managers
- Security consultants
- Basic understanding of application security, common attacks, and vulnerabilities (e.g., the OWASP Top 10)
- Familiarity with Agile development and Agile project/product management practices
- Familiarity with Linux command shells and associated commands
- Ability to understand basic coding concepts
What You Will Receive
- Course Virtual Machine (VM) containing pre-built DevOps CI/CD toolchain and lab exercises
- USB drive containing course VM
- Course Books
- Lab Workbook
Hands-on Training
This class reinforces knowledge transfer by having many hands-on labs. This goes well beyond the traditional lecture and delves into literal application of techniques.
The class Workbook provides a step by step guide to learning and applying hands on techniques but also provides a "no hints" approach for those who want to stretch their skills and see how far they can get without following the guide. This allows students of varying backgrounds to pick a difficulty and always have a frustration free fallback path.
Author Statement
DevOps and cloud are radically changing the way that organizations design, build, deploy and operate online systems. Leaders like Amazon, Etsy and Netflix are able to deploy hundreds or even thousands of changes every day, continuously learning and continuously improving and continuously growing - and leaving their competitors far behind. Now DevOps and the cloud are making their way from Internet "Unicorns" and cloud providers into enterprises.
Traditional approaches to security can't come close to keeping up with this rate of accelerated change. Engineering and operations teams who have broken down "the walls of confusion" in their organizations are increasingly leveraging new kinds of automation: Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, microservices, containers and cloud service platforms. The question is, can security take advantage of the tools and automation to better secure its systems?
Security must be reinvented in a DevOps and cloud world.
- Ben Allen, Jim Bird, Eric Johnson, and Frank Kim
Additional Resources
Take your learning beyond the classroom. Explore our site network for additional resources related to this course's subject matter.


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Short description
Clean Flip features modern and clean design combined with 3d space and unfolding / flip clock effect for great and straightforward presentation. Clean and minimal design was the goal here.
Like you can see from a preview there are 3 places for your slogans. Customization is extremely easy and fast, few click and you will be able to render. You can easily edit the colors and the rest of the elements in the animation.This project is made in Full HD 1920×1080 and HD 1280×720. Clean Flip is great opener for trailer promos, video productions, presentations, product showcases, portfolios and more.
Main features
- After Effects CS4 or above
- FullHD 1920×1080, HD 1280×720
- NO plugins required
- 2 versions in the pack
- Very Easy&Fast customization
- Organized and color coded
- Video tutorial included
Additional information
Font used in the comp is free one and it can be found here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TitilliumText
SFX are available, just drop me a PM for more details about them. Feel free to contact me anytime if you find difficult to customize this template and I'll try to help you as much as I can. Thank you for your time and don't forget to rate.


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Richard B. Hallick 9/25/2012 8:35:56 PMCongratulations, Nikki. Great capture. #10341634
Daniel Ruf 9/26/2012 12:23:03 PMCongrats, Nikki. #10342503
Errick L. Cameron 9/27/2012 8:36:00 AMThis is my favorite of your THREE wins of the month! It always pays to have your camera ready! Well done and Congratulations! #10343559
Ann H. Belus 9/27/2012 10:55:26 AMGreat shot! Congratulations, Nikki! #10343659
Mary Beth Aiello 9/27/2012 12:29:31 PMA wonderful street scene, Nikki, and so beautifully captured. Huge congrats. #10343729
Carol Quina 9/27/2012 10:48:56 PMCongratulations on the finalist Nikki! #10344372
From his expression it looks like he Just realized there was a dog in the stroller and NOT his Grandson
He seems to be searching the crowd for the wayward child!! ;0)
Congratulations NiK!! #10345193
Nadia Paul 9/28/2012 11:37:08 PMGreat capture - congrats Nikki! #10345896
Rona L. Schwarz 9/30/2012 8:40:26 PMAnother one of your fantastic candids, Nikki! Congratulations! #10348251
Merna L. Nobile 10/19/2012 10:04:03 AM
I heard the good news and could not be happier for you! CONGRATULATIONS, Merna
I was out for some street photography shots at the farmers' market last Saturday and spotted this guy and his dog. Got a few shots and was delighted to see the couple with their baby right behind them when I opened the files at home :)
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Scripter Susan Kim's unwieldy legit adaptation overreaches in its effort to capture the emotional depth of Amy Tan's 1989 sprawling generational novel "The Joy Luck Club." The often-compelling episodic vignettes, chronicling the complicated emotional entanglement of four immigrant Chinese women and their thoroughly Americanized daughters, fail to realize the novel's overall sense of resolution and fulfillment.
A capable 11-member ensemble, under helmer Jon Lawrence Rivera's astute guidance, impressively inhabits each of the play's 18 scenes, but the cast is undermined by Kim's unbalanced agenda and meandering dramatic throughline.
Rivera succeeds in underscoring the fractious emotional connections between each mother/daughter pair. Underachieving copywriter Jing-Mei (Elaine Kao) learns to appreciate the heroic survival odyssey of her mother, Suyuan (Cathy Chang subbing for Cici Lau), only after her death. Contentious All-American girl Waverly Jong (Celeste Den) cannot help but constantly clash with her culturally regressive mother Lindo (Karen Huie), a former child bride who used subterfuge to escape an unhappy marriage and flee to America.
Ying-Ying (Deborah Png), who also fled an unhappy marriage in China, is determined that her emotionally reticent daughter, Lena (Katherine Lee), learn to stand up for herself and become her own woman. The most socially dynamic of the mothers, An-Mei (Emily Kuroda), cajoles her emotionally abused daughter Rose (Jennifer Chang) to become an adult and confront her domineering Anglo husband Ted (David Stanbra).
As in the novel, all these mothers and daughters offer their individual perspectives, some humorous and some tragic, creating an uneven playing field of personal histories. A few of the scenes exude such power that they reduce others to the level of plot fodder.
A highlight is the wrenching enactment of the drowning of Rose's little brother at the beach, wherein Kuroda's An-Mei ragingly invokes all the traditional powers of her ancestry, imploring that her son be returned. Also noteworthy is Ying Ying's youthful recollection of a Moon Festival in China, enhanced by Nathan Wang's ethereal original music and sounds.
Admirably performing yeoman duties as all the men in the lives of these women are Stanbra, Edward Gunawan and Ben Lin.
Abetting the fluidity of the scenic flow is John H. Binkley's imaginative sets and projection design, featuring a tenement building facade, framed by oversized parchments, one of which serves as a screen for projected chapter headings. Jeremy Pivnick's understated but emotionally evocative lighting and Dori Quan's character-perfect costumes do much to lend authenticity to the proceedings.


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Story time. The following is an excerpt I found particularly interesting today from Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo's book, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Chapter 5). Yes, it's a book about economics and data, but what it does very well is tell very human stories about how we behave, in different places around the world under different circumstances. I highly recommend it. In addition, Banerjee and Duflo have created a rich accompanying website full of additional data, photos, graphics and stories, studies, teachings and resources.
The Family
For the sake of their models, economists often ignore the inconvenient fact that the family is not the same as just one person. We treat the family as one "unit," assuming that the family makes decisions as if it were just one individual. The paterfamilias, the head of the dynasty, decides on behalf of his spouse and his children what the family consumes, who gets educated and for how long, who gets what kind of bequest, and so on. He may be altruistic, but he is clearly omnipotent. But as anybody who has been part of a family knows, this isn't quite how families work. This simplification is misleading, and there are important policy consequences from ignoring the complicated dynamics within the family. We already saw, for example, that giving women access to a formal property title is important for fertility choices [how many children to have], not because it changes her view on how many children she wants but because it makes her views count more.


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MANHASSET, N.Y. (AP) — Vincent R. Sombrotto, a labor leader who served as president of the National Association of Letter Carriers for 24 years, has died. He was 89.
The NALC announced on its website that Sombrotto died Thursday. Fairchild Sons Funeral Home in Manhasset, which is handling the arrangements, confirmed his death to The Associated Press on Sunday.
Sombrotto joined the then-Post Office Department in 1947 as a part-time carrier. As a letter carrier at New York's Grand Central Station, he took charge of the 1970 postal strike to protest poor working conditions and wages so low that some carriers qualified for welfare. President Richard Nixon called in 25,000 troops to deliver the mail in the city after the carriers went on strike.
The walkout eventually spread to 100 cities and involved more than 200,000 postal workers. It led to the creation of the United States Postal Service.
In 1978, Sombrotto was elected as the NALC's 16th president, a position he held leading the union's 300,000 members until his retirement in 2002.
He played a key role in helping to reform the Hatch Act, a law that prohibited partisan political activities by federal employees.
"Vince's long tenure and tireless work for this union, at both the local and national levels, has left a lasting, positive impact on all the men and women who have carried the mail since the Great Postal Strike, and on those who will do so in the decades yet to come," NALC President Fredric V. Rolando said.
He is survived by his wife, Rae, seven children and 14 grandchildren. A funeral Mass is planned for Monday morning in Port Washington.
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Basic searches bring up all sorts of things, but with thousands of hits on "map" and "list" far too time consuming to go through to find what really should be a sticky somewhere obvious (apologies if it is).
What I'd like to find is a list of maps, maybe split into sections to show different themes. Number of terits on the map, number of regions (if applicable) number of terits allocated at the start for 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 players along with how many neutrals, if there are resetting neutrals. Along with any other relevant info that groups maps together into a theme.
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Hearsay evidence can be both simple to explain and difficult to understand in the context of genealogy. In its most rudimentary form, hearsay occurs the moment a person says "he said" or "she said." In its most colloquial form, if it ain't "straight from the horse's mouth," it's hearsay. In court, most hearsay, with some exceptions, is excluded from being presented as evidence. Why? Because the law is suspicious of the trustworthiness of hearsay evidence. Hearsay has the same faults as the "whisper down the lane" game: by the time a story or fact is retold several times, it is usually mangled. "Grandpa Tim was from Ballykissangel" can become "Grandpa Jim was from Bally, Kilkenny" in a few short generations, especially if the story is related after a few pints at a wake.Like the justice system, we family historians would prefer that our evidence come straight from our ancestor's mouth.
But, we all know how difficult it is in our genealogy research to find even double or triple hearsay evidence, let alone direct testimony from someone long deceased. So we search and search and search for that reliable piece of evidence that will PROVE that Tim Kelly from Ballykissangel was an ancestor. Well, good luck with that quest! We Irish researchers, we often have to "make do" with evidence that is hearsay or circumstantial or just plain guesswork. That doesn't mean that we have to give up our research, it means that we have to be intelligent and aware researchers so that we can make an educated guess or a sound decision regarding registering information on our family tree.
A caveat: my remarks are not meant for those who are collecting family records with the aim of obtaining membership in a lineage society. In that case, you must follow the society's guidelines for acceptable proof.
Family stories, while strictly speaking are hearsay, should not be disregarded. They are folklore--an oral tradition of preserving history. The Irish tradition is an ORAL one--Brehon law was passed down by memorization. The great bards preserved Irish history, not in writing, but in songs and stories and poems. To me, it seems natural that our ancestors relied on the spoken word rather than on records compiled by their rulers. So don't discard your family stories. Maybe the edges of the family lore are frayed, and a few of the stitiches are lost, but the weft and warp of the story containes strands that hold solid and true.
We all tend to place great weight on written records, giving them the place of honor on our list of sources. But we often forget that written records can themselves contain information that is far more unreliable than our family lore. Did you ever consider that US census records can contain double or even triple hearsay? Here is a scenario to consider: a tired census taker with a headache scribbles down answers given by cousin Sally who is home from work sick with the flu, has just a vague idea of what year Uncle Tim was born, but answers dutifully because she is scared of the government agent. Are you really going to trust the date of birth in the census over that in the family Bible as recorded by Great Aunt Ellen, Tim's older sister?
My favorite piece of hearsay is the death certificate. Not only does it contain hearsay, but it is impossible for the subject of the record to correct it, ever.
Hearsay evidence might not be admissible in court, but it does play a huge role in building a case or solving a murder. When a detective hunts down a suspect, she relies on hearsay all the time. What's the word on the street? Who has heard about the whereabouts of the suspect? What did the suspect say to the victim? A good detective would have a fine tuned, but discerning, ear for hearsay and its worth. As family historians, so should we.
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Do you think Aro is the hero or the villian and why?
I think at one point, early on, Aro was a hero. I mean he got along with Carlisle so he cant be entirely evil. But you know what they say about power. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I think Aro has been corrupted by the power he has held for however many years. He is terrified of losing it. I know that the vampires are similar to rock in that it takes something great to change them (ie Edward meeting Bella) but rock can also be changed slowly. I think that the power Aro has as a member of the Volturi, has been slowly eating away at his personality or his ethics, whatever you want to call it. I think, in the beginning, Aro wanted to protect the vampire way of life and saw that as noble work. But he is used to having the power that he does and will fight against anything to keep it.
I hate to bring politics into it, but you could kind of associate the U.S. with Aro. I mean is the U.S. the hero or the villian? Its all about perspective and the sense in which action is taken.


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Where is Moammar Gadhafi? His second wife and two sons surfaced Monday in neighboring Algeria. But people in Libya's capital say their leader of 42 years is yesterday's man.
For 42 years, Green Square was the stage set for Moammar Gadhafi's speeches against enemies all around Libya.
Today, it is called Martyrs' Square, in honor of fighters who died to break his grip on Libya.
Instead of banners hailing the "King of Kings," graffiti now reads "Finito," and "Game Over."
A big new sign implores rebels to stop celebrating by shooting their guns into the air.
Khalil Salem Melad Almosrat, a 56-year-old pensioner, pauses from cleaning up the litter of bullet casings. An army veteran of Gadhafi's wars in Chad, he said that after all the warlike speeches, the Libyan leader proved to be a coward.
Almosrat said that Gadhafi told the world "he was a mujahedeen, a Bedouin, that he would fight until the last bullet. When the fight came to him, he just ran away."
He believes that Gadhafi may have escaped into the Sahara, possibly southern Algeria. On Monday evening, Algeria's foreign ministry reported that Gadhafi's second wife and two of his sons had entered Algeria.
Almosrat, the war veteran, is surprised when asked if Gadhafi's family will ever return to rule Libya. In Arabic, he responds: "Impossible, impossible, impossible."
Nearby, Khaled Abid, a 35-year-old government manager, stands in the shade of an arcade facing the sun-baked square.
For him, Gadhafi is yesterday's man. Asked what are the chances that Gadhafi's clan will return to rule Libya, he replied, "Not even 'minus one percent."
Ten steps away, the National Commercial Bank is re-opening for business with a new doormat - the bank's former lobby portrait of Gadhafi.
One customer spits on the portrait. Another pauses to ostentatiously wipe his feet on the image of the fallen leader. A third, an elderly man, dances a little jig, then takes off a shoe, then repeatedly hammers Gadhafi in the face with his loafer.
Inside the building, Hussein Kharaka, a bank executive, catches up with colleagues in their first day back at work since revolution turned Tripoli upside down 10 days ago.
He is optimistic about Libya's future, believing that banks now will be run along international lines, and that Libya will have good relations with Europe and the United States.
Asked about the man who once called himself, "The King of African Kings," work colleagues listen as Kharaka responds in Arabic, "He is in one of his holes, he is a coward; he can't even face people."
On the way back to the hotel, the driver plays a CD with Libya's new provisional anthem. There are taxis on the streets. Banks are open. Shops are open. Some of the Gadhafis in Algeria. Across Tripoli, it is clear the Gadhafi mystique is broken.


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